Peace, Love, and First Grade

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

Hope you're having an awesome weekend!

We are officially on Spring Break!
Today, I want to share a few activities we did while learning about Presidents and reading Jack & the Beanstalk.

Jack and the Beanstalk

We read Jack and the Beanstalk each year with our Plant unit.

Well, I decided to make a mini-unit to go along with the book.

The mini-unit is 41 pages of comprehension activities.

Here's a sampling!

What’s Included:

Mini-unit Cover-page 1

Table of Contents- page 2

Vocabulary/Character cards- page 3-9

Sequence the Beanstalk-Story Sequencing- pages 10-11

What would I say? Character Speech Bubble Match (color)-pages 12-14

What would I say? Character Speech Bubble Match (B/W)-pages 15-17

What Would I say? Speech Bubbles-pages 18-20

Unscramble the Beanstalk-Sentence Scramble (color)-pages 21-25

Unscramble the Beanstalk-Recording Sheets-pages 26-27

Make Words with “beanstalk”-Making Words letters- page 28-29

Make Words with “beanstalk”-Making Words recording sheet-page 30

Describe Jack-Bubble Map- page 31

Describe the Giant-Bubble Map- page 32

Label The Beanstalk-Labeling Mat in color-page 33

Label The Beanstalk-Labeling Mat in B/W-page 34

Creative Writing: What would you trade for Magic beans? page 35

Creative Writing: would you climb the beanstalk? page 36

Beanstalk Craftivity-pages 37-41

I'm excited about the craft! It's easy to prepare and won't take forever

for the kiddos to complete! I think it turned out really cute!

You can find my mini-unit at TpT for $5!

Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Spring Break (if that's you)!!

Hope you are having a great weekend!
Our Spring Break starts this Friday-hard to believe!

Math Games

One of the Common Core Math Standards for First and Second Grade is

"mentally" being able to add or subtract 10 from a given number.

I don't know about your pumpkins, but some of mine struggle with this skill!

I made an "I Have, Who Has" game to practice this a few weeks ago,

and the kiddos loved it!

We used number grids to help us find or check our answers.

The kids really had to listen and THINK,

and the number grids were excellent tools for practice.

This is what we did:

Each child was given a number grid and an "I Have, Who Has" card.
I read the first card, and each student listened and placed one finger on the addition fact I read.
Example: Who has 27 + 10? Place one finger on 27 and count up 10. By this time, most students know the shortcut to this skill.
The child who had the answer then read his card. Proceed from there.

This offered great practice for adding 10 to a number.